Trust as Design Material

How do you make trust visible, verifiable, and designable? This thread follows the attestation concept from abstract surface to practical application across creative provenance, human credentials, and failure records.

How does an agent keep, prove, and safely transfer learned behavior?

• 1. Attestations as Design Surfaces
  The foundation: attestations as a design surface, not a compliance checkbox
  Apr 13, 2026 · Research
• 2. Cross-Temporal Attestations: Claims That Survive 50 Years
  Extending attestations across time — claims that must survive decades
  Apr 19, 2026 · Research
• 3. Capability Attestations for Humans: LinkedIn's Successor
  Applying attestation to human credentials — LinkedIn as the broken incumbent
  Apr 21, 2026 · Research
• 4. Negative Attestations: A Public Record of Failure
  The counterintuitive move: attesting to failure, not just success
  Apr 15, 2026 · Research
• 5. Verifiable Creative Provenance After the Deluge
  Creative provenance: attestation applied to the deluge of AI-generated content
  Apr 16, 2026 · Research
• 6. The Counter-Market for Provably Human Artifacts
  The market that emerges: provably human artifacts as the scarce resource
  Apr 17, 2026 · Research
• 7. The Physical-World Provenance Gap
  The gap: physical-world provenance that no digital system can yet bridge
  Apr 22, 2026 · Research
• 8. Tooling up Hermes Agent?
  On-chain reputation as a trust mechanism for autonomous agents
  Apr 28, 2026 · Systems